Dish-cleaner



G. S BLAKESLEE.

DISH CLEANER.

(Np Model.) 2

No. 532.522. Patented Jan. 15, 1895,

ima es.

UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGES. BLAKESLEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISH-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,522, dated January 15, 1895.

Application filed September 14, 1891. Serial No. 405,687. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. BLAKESLEE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish-Washing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dish washing machines wherein rotatable dish-holding baskets are mounted in'a tank.

The present invention has for its object to improve machines of the character alluded to and to such end the invention consists in the combination with a shaft, of cross heads mounted thereupon at its opposite ends and provided with open sockets, rotatable dishholding baskets having gudgeons removably engaging and rotatable in said open sockets,

and opening and closing clasps mounted onof the counecting hooks. Fig. 5. is a detail view of a portion of one arm of a cross head and one of the clamps.

In the accompanying drawings the letter A indicates a central shaft working in bearings B. and O. at each end, which aresupported by suitable frames D. D. connected at their base by the tie-beams E. At one end of this central shaft is a crank F. for turning it, and near each end of said shaft and within the frames D. D., and firmly fixed thereon, are the cross heads G. The arm of the cross heads are each constructed with a semi-circular or other suitable socket H.

I. is a basket for holding the dishes to be washed. It is made of two head pieces J. J. connected by parallel rods K. K.

The cover L. is made of parallel frods M. bound together by straps N. N. At one end these straps are loosely attached to one parallel rod as at 0. Fig. 2 and the other end is made hooked, and clasps the opposite rod P.

as in Fig. 2. The rods M. of the cover are closed in Letters Patent No. 506,030, issued to me October 3, 1893, for which reason I do not consider it necessary to more fully describe and illustrate the basket.

The heads of the basket are provided with gudgeons S which rest in the sockets H at the ends of the arms of the cross heads. The gudgeons are retained in position in the sockets at one end by the hoop T. which passes around theend of the arms. See Fig. 3. The

other end is held in position by clasps U. Fig. 5.

V is a wash pipe placed above the central shaft. A 'slot w. extends its entire length at its lowest part. It is connected to the supply pipey'. In this supply pipe is a quick opening and closing valve W.

A basket filled with dishes is placed in position in the sockets H. The valve W. is opened when a sheet of water descends onto the dishes. The central shaft is then turned until the ends of the following arms pass under the wash pipe, when a second basket filled with dishes is placed thereon, and so on. The water continues to fall from the wash pipe. It strikes the uppermost basket filled with dishes. It in part passes through the basket and falls onto the basket below, and in part is thrown to the right and left onto the other two baskets. Thus as the central shaft is turned the baskets pass under the wash pipe and the water is dashed onto the various baskets filled with dishes, not only as each basket passes under the Wash pipe, but during their entire circuit. Thus the dishes of each basket have ample time for the water to act on them, to soften the soiling, so that a-dash of water from the wash pipe thoroughly cleans them.

The casing or tank within which the rotating dish basket is arranged is supported by the "end frames D, and is composed of vertical side boards A, end boards B, and bottom walls B which converge toward each other from the lower edge portions of the vertical side walls A to a point directly over a water conduit composed, as here shown, of a trough D having a water-discharge pipe D The con verging walls B constitute water-gathering devices by which the water is gathered and directed inward to the center of the tank, so that it discharges through the contracted channel or passage B into the water conduit or trough D. The converging water gathering devices render it possible to employ a comparatively narrow water conduit or trough D, and serve to constantly gather the water at the center of the tank, which water is continuously carried ofi as rapidly as it flows from the dishes, so that the dishes do not pass through dirty water, which is advantageous over those dish-washing machines wherein the water will accumulate in the tank, and the latter must be emptied from time to time by operating a discharge cock.

The dish-holdin g baskets are provided with handles E, and the end boards 13 are fastened to the frames D by screws F. The side boards A are secured to the end boards B by hooks 0, Figs. 2 and 4.

\Vhat I claim is- In a dish-washing machine, the combiuation with a shaft, of cross heads mounted thereupon at its opposite ends and provided with open sockets H, rotatable dish-holding 

